Guillaume,
I don't undestand your point, you want to integrate jOpenDocument in
your commercial application,
so we can conclude you want to make money with your product. Only few
people could work for free, so it's perfectly fair
I didn't suggest that some work for free and others benefit from it, it
wouldn't be fair :-P I would suggest such a proposal if it doesn't
benefit all parties, don't take me wrong :)
You don't want to comply to the GPL licence with your product because
you need to sell a closed product
and you ask us to do the opposite of what you do ????
We've developed certain parts of our product and given it under EPL
license. Furthermore, many other components are not our own but we've
spend a big effort in collaborating with their owners to improve,
enhance and make them more stable. We build added-value products on top
of these components. From these words, does it sound like I'm stealing
anyone?
I wonder why you are not following your advice by releasing your
product under GPL ou Apache licence...
or the buy a commercial licence, which will cost you just a little
percentage of the revenue thatI hope you will get with your application.
I do actually follow my own advice :) I spend a great deal of my time
collaborating with open-sourced projects, helping in newsgroups and
solving others problems. I get paid for helping a community of users. We
all win from that. Is not an altruistic job, of course. I expect that
helping others to adopt our components will in turn improve the quality
of the component (and I promise, its the best distributed peer-review
your can find out there :P). The question is, why reinventing the wheel?
I don't know if you are familiar to the Eclipse platform, but I would
invite you to come around and see how all companies share and build
components for it, and they still make revenue. Creating commercial
applications on top of them is just very frequent in this environment.
What a strange world :)
It certainly is ;)
Thanks for your sharing your thoughts.
Cheers,
Víctor.
